Octoparse vs Screaming Frog

Likelihood to Recommend

Octoparse is good for web scraping and crawling. It has done everything I've ever asked it to with very few exceptions. With that in mind, I would think that if it wasn't able to preform a task, it's probably user error. I'm hesitant to reach out to their customer service team, as with the free plan you get what they call "community, lazy support" which makes it seem like they'll get to you when they feel like it. Not really complaining though, since I'm not paying for anything, so what can you expect? At any rate, I'd highly recommend them

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Peter Angel

Director of Sales

Suppllies OutletPrinting, 51-200 employees

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Screaming Frog tracks the crawl level, internal links, outbound links, title tags, and meta descriptions of the pages it crawls. It also adds HTTP status codes, title tag length, meta description length, H1, H2 tags and lengths, and canonical tags. Many of these elements are also broken into their own tabs at the top so that you can easily focus in on problem areas. You can right-click on any URL for many more options. The program is definitely valuable to anyone who is looking to gauge factors regarding SEO. However, if you are not a web designer/admin, you're going to lack an understanding of the information it provides.

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Justin Roodman

Product Marketing Manager

nLyten Media LLCManagement Consulting, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Octoparse

Screaming Frog

Keyword analysis

Backlink management

SERP ranking tracking

Page grader

Competitive analysis

Site audit / diagnostics

Site recommendations

Task management

Octoparse

Screaming Frog

Local SEO

Social SEO

Mobile SEO

Global SEO

Octoparse

Screaming Frog

Multi-domain support

Integration with web analytics tools

Pros

Web Scraping.
Crawling.
Data Export.
Market Comparison Analysis.

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Peter Angel

Director of Sales

Suppllies OutletPrinting, 51-200 employees

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Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.

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Ari Roth

Senior Account Manager

Five Blocks Inc.Public Relations and Communications, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Haven't had any issues with the program or company. But there's certainly a learning curve. More tutorial videos wouldn't hurt.

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Peter Angel

Director of Sales

Suppllies OutletPrinting, 51-200 employees

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Exporting one report at time to CSV or XSLX can be cumbersome and time consuming.
Custom extraction requires pretty in-depth knowledge of RegEx or XPath.
Not a very visual tool.
Larges sites can take up a tremendous amount of resources (RAM, space, connection).

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Anthony Daronzio

SEO Director

Boomerang Pharmaceutical Communications part of AccentureMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Screaming Frog 10.0

Based on 3 answers

The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it

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Anthony Daronzio

SEO Director

Boomerang Pharmaceutical Communications part of AccentureMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Usability

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Screaming Frog 6.3

Based on 2 answers

Easy for me to use because I have using the product for a long time and understand the ins and outs of it. If I was a newbie, I would be completely lost. It does take some prior knowledge to operate this software and understanding of what a crawl means

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Anthony Daronzio

SEO Director

Boomerang Pharmaceutical Communications part of AccentureMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

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Screaming Frog 8.1

Based on 20 answers

Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.

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Scott Walker

Director of Digital Marketing

407 MarketingMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Screaming Frog 7.0

Based on 2 answers

If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue

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Anthony Daronzio

SEO Director

Boomerang Pharmaceutical Communications part of AccentureMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have absolutely no experience with any other web scraping tools. That being said, Octoparse is so good, I've never needed to go find another one to try out. Is it the best thing out there? I have no idea, nor would I be qualified to make that statement. But I can say for someone with little to no background, it's very easy to pick up and start using.

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Peter Angel

Director of Sales

Suppllies OutletPrinting, 51-200 employees

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO health of any website, Screaming Frog is the best

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Scott Richardson

Co Founder and SEO Consultant

Scott McKellam AgencyInternet, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

I have the free plan. Every time I land a cold lead generated through scraping it's 100% profit.

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Peter Angel

Director of Sales

Suppllies OutletPrinting, 51-200 employees

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Increased employee efficiency - We spend many less hours tracking down and reporting simple meta tags.
Better Client Servicing - We are able to ensure we have a total look at a client's site before we recommend anything.
True Pricing Structure - We are able to more accurately predict how much help a client may need based on factors such as size of site, number of redirects, proper use of meta tags, etc.

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Brynna Baldauf

SEO Strategist

Vertical MeasuresMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$89*

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Octoparse Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard Plan	$89¹
Standard Plan	$890²
Professional Plan	$890³
Professional Plan	$1,890⁴

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Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

Keyword analysis

Backlink management

SERP ranking tracking

Page grader

Competitive analysis

Site audit / diagnostics

Site recommendations

Task management

Local SEO

Social SEO

Mobile SEO

Global SEO

Multi-domain support

Integration with web analytics tools

Pros

Octoparse

Screaming Frog

Cons

Octoparse

Screaming Frog

Likelihood to Renew

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Usability

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Implementation Rating

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Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Octoparse Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Screaming Frog Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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